This is a rush transcript from "The Story," March 22, 2019. This copy may not be in its final form and may be updated.

HARRIS FAULKNER, HOST: We begin with the "Fox News Alert", the wait is finally over. Tonight, special counsel Robert Mueller submits his final report on the investigation into Russian interference. What many have called collusion in the 2016 elections.

After nearly two years, the Mueller report is now in the hands of Attorney General William Barr. A question at this hour. What will Barr do with it? The attorney general has been clear about his intentions to release the report's findings. But some lawmakers doubt it.

In primetime, I'm Harris Faulkner in tonight for Martha MacCallum, who is on assignment. THE STORY tonight is the conclusion of 675 days of speculation over whether President Donald Trump or his campaign coordinated with the Russian government.

A senior DOJ official confirming to Fox News now, no further indictments will coming from the special counsel's office. And Attorney General William Barr may provide details of the report to Capitol Hill very soon. Writing this, "I may be in a position to advise you of the special counsel's principal conclusions as soon as this weekend."

And earlier today, POLITICO reported Democrats secretly think the Mueller report will be a dud, but that may not stop them from investigating the president and his allies, even if there is no evidence of collusion.

A Mueller report devoid of any Russia collusion should be a win for the Trump White House.

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DONALD TRUMP, PRESIDENT: There was no collusion, there was no obstruction. Everybody knows it. It's all a big hoax, which I call it the witch hunt. It's all a big hoax.

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FAULKNER: Cruel, irony, maybe that a win for the White House from Robert Mueller could be the spark that lights the Capitol Hill firestorm of other investigations. Democratic presidential candidate Kamala Harris, already calling for public hearings under oath tonight. "The report must be released immediately and A.G. Barr must publicly testify under oath about the investigation's findings."

We will hear from Trey Gowdy in a moment. First, though, Ed Henry joins me now on set.

ED HENRY, CHIEF NATIONAL CORRESPONDENT: Harris, great to see you.

FAULKNER: You, too. Always. Friday, they sometimes work out this way. A lot of news.

HENRY: Yes, absolutely. The news coming in hot.

FAULKNER: I want to ask you first because there have been reports, the Associated Press saying that the White House wants an early look.

HENRY: Yes.

FAULKNER: You just spoke with White House -- the president's attorney, Rudy --

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HENRY: The president's personal attorney, Rudy Giuliani, just contacted me. Said this A.P. report is not true. The Associated Press breaking this hour saying that Giuliani, the rest of the legal team on an early look at Mueller's findings before the public sees it. He says that is absolutely not true. They are confident, Giuliani tells me that Bill Barr, the Attorney General will handle this appropriately.

As you said, after two years investigating Mueller has now basically said, his probe is over with no further indictments. Even the president's critics like James Comey were telegraphing last night. They're no longer sure there was collusion or obstruction of justice despite all the speculation.

On the surface that certainly sounds like good news for the president. Means flatly, he and members of his family close aides will not be indicted by Robert Mueller. However, we still do not know the specifics of the report, and this hardly means all of the probes are over.

Democrats run the House as you noted, they're already talking about bringing Mueller in as a witness for sworn testimony. They could find other damaging information on the president that does not lead to a Mueller indictment as we say. But could be considered by the House for possible impeachment.

Let's not also forget, the Southern District here in New York or former attorney Michael Cohen pled guilty to crimes already. They're still investigating various Trump organization business dealings.

President White House not in charge of this process. That is Bill Barr, in terms of the Mueller report being released to Congress, the public. Remember, Barr took charge today at about 4:35 p.m. Eastern Time.

He contacted the White House, said the report is coming. Then, Barr himself informed the Judiciary Committees in the House and Senate. And he wrote as you say, "The special counsel has submitted to me today a confidential report explaining the prosecution or declination decision." Meaning, declining to prosecute. "He has reached as required by the law. I am reviewing the report and anticipate, I may be in a position to advise you of the special counsel's principal conclusions as soon as this weekend." All of this is critical, Harris because as you said, it's in Barr's hands.

FAULKNER: So --

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HENRY: And he as early as this weekend could say, there's no collusion, there's no obstruction of justice.

FAULKNER: All right. So, there are actually two different types of final reports here. You've got Mueller's report to the Attorney General. And then, you'll have the Attorney General's report to Congress. Which is basically his summation of what the report says.

We won't know what is being left out of it, but there are some suggestions. The type of information that could be left out as I'm reading tonight of a report to Congress or the Republic. A question mark here could it be grand jury information, executive privilege, classified material, there's a lot we don't know but those are some options of things that we might not see.

HENRY: Absolutely. I mean, number one, as Bill Barr said in his confirmation hearings, in a normal prosecution, a normal case, if you don't prosecute someone, that information is not just dumped out there in terms of what led to your decision not to prosecute. But this is an extraordinary case, it's the president of the United States.

So, even though it's clear now tonight that Robert Mueller, the headline is, is not going to indict the president. That's the headline. There still is other information in this report that could be damaging politically, but also could be of a sensitive nature. We're talking about Russian interference.

Again, not collusion. Where -- but there's appears to be no proof that Russia -- you know, changed the result of the 2016 election, but did they interfere? That's what's been investigated. And the NSA, the CIA, other agencies are going to say, this specific information we don't want dumped out in the public. Some of this is secret.

FAULKNER: Yes.

HENRY: And so, that's part of the process with Barr and Congress.

FAULKNER: Well, one last point with you, and then I'll move on. You know it is interesting as we look at this. And the big question too, is when you say no further indictments, I want to know does that mean sealed indictments, I want to know what that really entails. And maybe that's something else we'll learn.

HENRY: Well, you raise an important point because, in the last 24 or 48 hours or so, there have been other networks having -- liberal commentators coming on. And also a former CIA director John Brennan, saying more indictments are coming.

And as you say, others speculating there could be sealed indictments that were kept in secret. But no, hang on a second, Mueller is saying, A, no more indictments. And B, remember Adam Schiff two years ago said there's evidence of collusion.

FAULKNER: Right.

HENRY: Before this even got --

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FAULKNER: Well, look, John Brennan, former director of the CIA, two Fridays ago said that it was going to happen within a week. So, I mean it's a lot of tea leaf reading, we don't have to do that anymore.

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HENRY: That part is true. That part is true, but the reports here -- but the idea that there's more indictments, not true.

FAULKNER: Yes. All right. Ed Henry, thank you very much.

HENRY: Appreciated.

FAULKNER: I want to bring in now, Trey Gowdy, former House Oversight Committee chairman, former prosecutor, and Fox News contributor now. Trey, good to see you and talk with you, I should say tonight. You know, that question of what comes next is so important. Because William Barr will make a decision now, not only about what the public will see but what Congress will see. Talk to me about the process.

TREY GOWDY, CONTRIBUTOR (via telephone): Well, I think it's important for your viewers, Harris, to realize the reason we have Bob Mueller because the Department of Justice who otherwise would be handling this felt like they had a conflict. So, Mueller, in essence, worked for the Department of Justice. That is who the report goes to.

The only obligation to notify Congress is if he had a recommendation that his supervisor, Rod Rosenstein or Bill Barr did not follow. So, what's going to happen is Barr is going to read the report, I think he is going to want to share as much as he can. Because Barr understands what I've understood from day one.

Mueller's number one job was report on what Russia did. The second part of that is with whom if anyone did they do it. That's the Democrat focus. That is their obsession, but that was not Mueller's obsession.

So, I'm sure he will want to share what the intelligence community is this is the way to prepare for 2020, and beyond. And in the Democrats can subpoena him, they can bring Mueller to Capitol Hill. But we have three separate branches of government and congressional investigations.

Do you remember, Harris, when the House Intelligence Committee had to vote to turn over transcripts to the special counsel?

FAULKNER: Yes.

GOWDY: Maybe take a vote on that. Why didn't Special Counsel just go get them? Why did they have to ask another branch of government? Because we have three separate branches. This report belongs to the executive branch. Just like congressional investigations belong to the legislative branch. It's not just classified information, grand jury material, privacy act. It's also the fact that the FBI and the Department of Justice do not exonerate people. That is not their job.

FAULKNER: Right they report it.

GOWDY: Their job is to indict people. It's really not even to write a report or more to press conference. What Comey did with Clinton and laying out all the reasons he could have charged her, but did not, set a terrible precedent for this country. Prosecutors should never do that.

Either charge and shut up, and go to trial, or don't charge. But don't fail to charge and then layout all the reasons that you could have and maybe should have.

FAULKNER: Well, it's interesting that you say that because in recent days, Rod Rosenstein, the deputy attorney general said that he was going to stay on beyond the point that we thought he would be leaving mid-March.

And what he's been saying in recent days and even sent a letter today of this effect, saying that there should be no details on anyone who is unindicted. What is the significance of that? And maybe it goes along with what you're saying that if you didn't indict if you didn't charge, move on.

GOWDY: Well, it is manifestly unfair to name someone -- say in a conspiracy indictment as an unindicted co-conspirator, they can't prove that they didn't do it. And they're not going to be in front of a jury that can determine their lack of guilt. So, so prosecutors have been very, very careful naming people and indictments that are not going to eventually stand in front of 12 that have peers and have their peers passed judgment.

The other thing about the report, it would not surprise me at all if they interviewed people who said six or seven different things. I mean, that's just the nature of eyewitness testimony. So, in a political context, you're going to seize on whichever witness said whatever is most beneficial for you.

And you're going to ignore the five other people who saw all the stop light was green and not red, which is why when politics and the criminal justice system collide, it is always the justice system that perishes. So, I hope he does not. I hope he -- I hope he does not set.

200 plus years of precedent in this country about not forcing people to prove their innocence on his head. You can't prove your innocence. The president can't, he's not above the law but he's also not below the law. And the fact is he is the president, does not mean he should have to prove his innocence either.

FAULKNER: Not above and not below. Interesting way to put it. Trey Gowdy, I want to play if we can a video now that has just come in from moments ago. The ranking member of the House Intelligence Committee Adam Schiff, as you know, has even said that there was evidence of collusion. Ed Henry and I were just talking about that. I want to just get his first reaction and then we'll talk more.

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REP. ADAM SCHIFF, D-CALIF. (via telephone): I would first argue that the department cannot adopt a double standard, and should cooperate willingly. But if it doesn't, we will have to subpoena the evidence. We will have to subpoena Mueller or others to come before the Congress and answer questions because if there is evidence of a compromise whether it arises level of criminal conduct or not, it needs to be exposed.

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FAULKNER: Trey, is he saying that he won't believe this report if it does not show collusion or obstruction of justice or any other kind of a crime and this president. And others will not be indicted as what we are learning tonight that there are no further indictments.

GOWDY: Harris, he's the saddest man in the United States of America. Not only did he have evidence of collusion on the president. But you may remember he also said, the president may very well be indicted. And he also said he may be the first president who faces the prospect of jail. Swalwell --

FAULKNER: How does he get it so wrong then, if that's the case? We don't know what's in the report, but we know no further indictments. What's he seeing that we're not seeing?

GOWDY: What he's seeing is a strategy to keep this cloud, this Russia cloud over the administration until 2020. And that's always be adamant to see nothing that I haven't seen. So, how can two people have such disparate views of the evidence? I never saw any evidence of collusion between the Trump campaign and Russia. And Adam says he has direct evidence. So, make two former prosecutors or reasonable people cannot have views that disparate, unless, unless you're looking at it through a political prism.

On Swalwell said that indictments were coming. Remember when he tweeted that out a couple of days ago.

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FAULKNER: Eric Swalwell, California Representative, Democrat?

GOWDY: Yes, yes. I mean, he's also on the House Intelligence Committee. So, these guys know what the evidence is. They're very disappointed there no more indictments because they said that there would be.

And so, they're going to try to drag this out. They're going to try to bring Barr and Mueller over to -- even though there are no indictments, which is -- which is a high standard. You have to prove these beyond a reasonable doubt to convict somebody in this country.

But in politics, you just have to throw stuff against the wall and see what sticks. So, if they can get Mueller or Barr and start saying, well, this witness said that -- this witness said this. Then, it's a political win for them even though it's a loss for the country.

FAULKNER: All right, we were just getting word here. Ed Henry, thank you. Attorney General William Barr has left the building right now. And we'll report more detail on this as it happens. But we're telling you things as they're happening in real time.

Trey Gowdy, it has been one year, 10 months, and including today, six days of this investigation. You were still on the Hill, and it is great to get your first response tonight when all this thing began. Thank you very much.

GOWDY: Yes ma'am. Thank you. Have a good evening.

FAULKNER: Thanks. I want to bring in now, Ben Shapiro, editor in chief at the Dailywire.com. And author of the new book, "The Right Side of History: How Reason and Moral Purpose Made the West Great." You and I were going to talk about sundry things tonight and now we are focused in on something that you have been watching and that is how Democrats deal with this. Your first reaction and then I want to bring in some tweets from some of those 2020 Democratic hopefuls.

BEN SHAPIRO, EDITOR IN CHIEF, DAILY WIRE.COM: Well, it's astonishing to watch as the Democrats turn their lonely eyes from Robert Mueller who is supposed to be the deus ex machina who stopped President Trump to the Southern District of New York. They're doing that in real time. They're claiming that maybe, just maybe once the entire report is released, then it will tell us something different from the fact that there are no indictments as we now know.

And it will be amazing to watch them shift the goalposts. I'm seeing the media already suggesting that the big stories that President Trump is going to pounce. Whenever Republicans are exonerated of something, then it becomes a story about Republicans pouncing. It's never about media malfeasance for two years suggesting beyond the evidence at hand that President Trump was responsible for deep dark collusion with Russia that ended with Hillary Clinton losing the election.

FAULKNER: You know, Ben, you and I have talked before and it's always interesting when people jump the shark on things. So Republicans should hold their enthusiasm on behalf of the President and Democrats should hold their enthusiasm either thinking it's a dud coming out in this report and getting thirsty for more investigations.

Here's what we have. 20/20 Democratic hopeful Kamala Harris, the senator says this in a tweet. "Americans deserve to know the truth now that the Mueller report is complete. The report must be released immediately and A.G. Barr must publicly testify under oath about the investigation's findings. We need total transparency."

Has William Barr either previously in his confirmation hearings or anything you've heard since, Ben, said anything other than he will follow the rules and regulations and release the report. It's his intention to release as much as possible.

SHAPIRO: No, I mean, I've heard nothing except that from Attorney General Barr. And I would expect that he releases as much as he legally can. Because if I'm President Trump, that's actually what I want released. Plus A.G. Barr has already vowed that that's exactly what he's going to do. We keep hearing that President Trump obstructed the investigation over and over and over.

There is not one iota of evidence that he actually obstructed Robert Mueller, and I wouldn't expect him to obstruct attorney General Barr here either because the bottom line is no indictments. If there were going to be more indictments you would expect it to be of all the people around President Trump.

Forget about President Trump himself. There are people on the Left suggesting that the reason no indictments came down is supposedly because you can't indict a sitting president. OK, but you could indict everybody around him. None of those people got indicted.

So that suggests that this may be a giant nothing burger. We don't know yet, but the Democrats already suggesting preemptively that this is all a giant cover-up. It's just as they shifted the goalposts from -- it was it was collusion first, then it was obstruction, now they're shifting to preemptive narratives about cover-ups that haven't taken place yet.

FAULKNER: You are crisscrossing the country often. I see you popping up at universities and other places and talking to future voters, present voters. What is the temperature of people out there about this subject matter? We saw recently polling which showed that there was a growing number of Americans who felt like this was in fact what the president has called it, a witch hunt. Which means it's far and broad and wide and what are people telling you?

SHAPIRO: I mean, what I keep hearing over and over is that people were ready to hear the facts. But in the end, they don't feel like there was going to be much that comes down. And if it turns out that not much came down after Democrats overpromised for years on end that there would be hard evidence that President Trump skewed the election with the help of Vladimir Putin, that's going to be that's going to blow back on them.

I mean, you promised your base that you're going to get President Trump out of office and have them frog march like the (INAUDIBLE) brothers and things are going to go wrong for you when that turns out not to be true.

FAULKNER: This is just coming in. Senator Booker's campaign has just released an e-mail urging supporters to add their name to a list if they support the release of the Mueller report. If you sign, it leads to a page to donate to the campaign. This is coming from my executive producer normally on "Outnumbered Overtime." So fundraising off of this.

Again, I mean, the idea of jumping the shark is what gets you in trouble with the American people because as you said, they just want the facts.

SHAPIRO: I mean, it is such an obvious ploy. Every single thing that can be used for a fundraiser is used for fundraiser by candidates for political office, obviously, but preemptively suggesting that Barr is going to engage in a cover-up. So sign the petition and give me money is a pretty absurd use of everybody's time and money.

FAULKNER: Ben, you know, in terms of this new book that you've come out with and talking with young people, and we saw the president sign an executive order this week on free speech, the idea that people listen and talk to each other from every political avenue. What's going on right now should be a bipartisan effort to find out how much if in fact because we already know they did, how much the Russians meddled in our presidential election. I want to give you last word on where you think we are right now.

SHAPIRO: I mean, I think where we are is the Democrats are going to have to double down on what they already believed about President Trump. But I think the best way for President Trump to be fully exonerated with the American public is for Barr to release as much as possible which I think he will do.

Is that going to stop the investigations? No. Will it stop the Democrats from looking to the SDNY? Of course, not. But the very least it should give us a final word on what happened with Trump and Russia in 2016. So far, the only evidence available appears to be nothing criminal.

FAULKNER: Yes. Everybody is saying the same thing they want to see it all. And now we've got Senator Booker. Of course, he's a 2020 Democratic presidential hopeful trying to raise some donation money off of it, but we all want the same thing and that's just the facts. Ben Shapiro, always great to have you on the program. Thank you.

SHAPIRO: Thanks so much. Ed, I want to come back to you because in real time, here's what's happening. The Attorney General has left the building and we know what comes next. And by the way, Rod Rosenstein, his Deputy A.G. has a copy of this report as well. What have you learned?

HENRY: Well, what we've heard is that a very small group of aides around that man there, the new Attorney General Bill Barr, have seen the contents of the report. That's the other big issue for us to discuss. The big picture, no more indictments, it sounds like relatively good news for the President. But until we see the report, we don't even know how many pages is it.

Is this a thousand-page report that has all kinds of damaging information, that there was behavior that was troubling to the Special Counsel but did not rise to the level of indictment, we simply don't know. Or is he going to put together a report that said there was this problem, this problem, but at the end of the day there was no collusion, no obstruction, we simply don't know yet.

I think it's important and instructive though that Bill Barr, A, was previously Attorney General under President Bush 41, has impeccable credentials, is known for his independence. And B, Democrats pounded him again and again in his confirmation hearings and he repeatedly said I am going to be in charge of this report.

And when they said -- John Cornyn, as you know a key Republican said well, Rudy Giuliani says that they're going to get the report and they might make corrections to it before it goes public. And Barr on camera under oath said no, I am going to be in charge. So that's good news and bad news for the White House. If there's bad stuff in here, Barr is not going to cover it up.

If there's good stuff that clears the President, he's going to finally get the President not just a report but an Attorney General of the United States saying he's been cleared.

FAULKNER: And if you listen to Ben Shapiro and I think he's wise on this point too. And Trey Gowdy was echoing this as well. Of course, you may have said it first. But if you don't put as much as you can out, it just fuels speculation. And already there are fake reports circulating online. I mean, this is -- and so then I questioned why even put the information out there that there are no more indictments coming? Like I think we fully understand that these things probably need to be held together until they can be --

HENRY: But the fake news that might be out there, fake reports, whatever it may be, that actually, right, argues for transparency. Put out the substance of the report with notable revisions or you know, things you hold back, you know, redactions --

FAULKNER: I 100 percent agree with you. Some people are going to stop with that though, and we know it.

HENRY: But here's the bottom line in this as well. How many times, Harris, did you have Democrats on your various programs saying we must pass the Protect Bob Mueller Act because this President is going to fire him. It's going to be like the Saturday night massacre. This is Richard Nixon all over again.

A, Mueller was never fired. I got News for you. B, the man you just mentioned Rod Rosenstein who we heard, again and again, he'll be fired, it never happened.

FAULKNER: There's no (INAUDIBLE) about why he was leaving.

HENRY: It never happened.

FAULKNER: And in fact, he signed on for longer.

HENRY: He did. And --

FAULKNER: -- because his replacement has not been confirmed yet.

HENRY: Which is why many people around the President like Rudy Giuliani and others have said, let this process play out. Don't tweet about it too much, don't fire anybody --

FAULKNER: Well, that wasn't going to happen.

HENRY: He tweeted a little, maybe a lot.

FAULKNER: He tweeted some, but there is nothing now that we can do but wait for William Barr now to do his job. And what we also learned from his confirmation hearing was that professional friendship that he had for years with Robert Mueller. And reports are that even might have taken the president by surprise who had chosen William Barr. However it's worked out, it all substantiates the wait and see the way the facts that are coming.

HENRY: He is someone with gravitas.

FAULKNER: Yes.

HENRY: Jeff Sessions while you know, respected figure in the Senate when he became Attorney General never had the trust of this president, A, and B, didn't have this stature.

FAULKNER: Well, he recused himself.

HENRY: Right. Well, he recused himself but how many times did the president tweet about him, attacked him publicly. He didn't have the stature, he didn't have the President's trust and confidence. That leads the public to believe, is this guy really in charge. Bill Barr doesn't have that problem. He's new. He's got fresh legs even though he served before. He's got the gravitas having been there, dealt with tough issues - -

FAULKNER: And now he has the full report.

HENRY: And he can do what he wants.

FAULKNER: All right, my next guest is a former Trump campaign aide who got caught up in the Special Counsel probe himself, testified under oath multiple times, and you see him there has said that Mueller's investigation has forced his family, his whole life to be put on pause for two years. Here now Michael Caputo. Michael, the report is out. Your reaction?

MICHAEL CAPUTO, FORMER AIDE, TRUMP CAMPAIGN: It's my birthday, really. And I know Robert Mueller knew that because you know everything about me. And I'm going to take this is the best present I could ever -- present I could ever get.

It's over for my family. Our criminal, legal exposure is over. We may have some legal -- I'm sorry, some political exposure from the Democrats that can't accept the truth but I don't have any problem with that. After everything we've been through, Chairman Nadler, Chairman Schiff, I got no - - I got no issue with them.

FAULKNER: You know, Michael, we've been talking and I've been asking guests about this. You want to be careful not to get ahead of the story. But what you're talking about is with the word that they're no further indictments and you've been through so much already, just the idea that this is now in the hands of the Attorney General, you consider that closure.

CAPUTO: I do. You know, I've always been nothing but a witness here, just like many other people, dozens of other people. But the one thing we've always known is this an aggressive group of investigators probably the most remarkable set of investigators have ever been assembled by the federal government and the 21st century.

Like them or hate them, they're tough, and they can flip you into a subject or a target of this investigation in the blink of an eye. And so we were always all of us in peril. That's why we all of us, the smart ones got really good attorneys. So you know, every breath you take when the Mueller investigation is in business as a difficult breath. And I'm breathing very freely right now.

FAULKNER: You know, interviewed Ken Starr and the person who took over the investigation of the Clintons and Whitewater Robert Wray, that just earlier today, and they both said -- you say the best in the last 100 years. This is what prosecutors do. And at a federal level, this is how they do it and you got to be careful sitting down with them unless you have very good representation.

You know, very early on after your conversations, you were able to share a little bit about what was asked. What direction did you feel that they were going in all of this?

CAPUTO: Well, they always believed that there was Russian collusion. I believe --

FAULKNER: Did they say exactly to you?

CAPUTO: -- they look at their charts, their assignment to investigate possible collusion between the Trump campaign and the Kremlin. They look - - they took that very seriously. Every single question they asked me had to do with the potential Russian collusion. And I know from all -- you know, the rest of the people that are involved in this thing, I mean, we're all Trump associates. We all worked on the campaign. At least most of us did.

And we all talk -- and they were talking about Russian collusion, interviewing people about possibility of Russian influence on the campaign as late as a week ago. So this has always been about Russian collusion.

And here's a thing, Harris. You know the idea that the President of the United States or a candidate who becomes President of the United States would collude with a foreign power should be frightening to all of America no matter what party you're from.

And the fact that the Mueller investigation, the most remarkable group of investigators that we could have assembled likely found no collusion, we see no indictments left. I can do the math, you can do the math, there's not going to be any collusion. There's not going to be any obstruction. If they're able to prove it didn't happen, it's a good thing.

And the fact that the Democrats in the House can't accept this, can't accept that their headlines are over, their airtime is over, their fundraising is over, the fact that they can't accept that speaks volumes about what kind of people they are.

FAULKNER: You know, it's interesting for anybody who's watching and may doubt what you're saying to any degree, we just learned, I mean, just really how much the impeachment process has been focused on when the House Speaker Nancy Pelosi had to push against it. She had to keep people in our own party from overreaching on that matter. Wait until the Mueller report comes out. We'll have to see what's in it and whether or not they get what they need to go ahead with that.

But even Representative Al Green among the Democrats in the House who's calling for this months and months ago try to impeach the president based on what you know ahead of the Mueller report. This was supposed to be the big one. And so we all have waited and now that it's in the hands of William Barr, you say it's your birthday. Happy Birthday!

CAPUTO: It is my birthday. Let me tell you something. I believe impeachment is a metaphysical certitude. I think that Speaker Pelosi was trying to back people off just to cool things off. They're going to try and find something. If they can't, they're going to create something. They get to define what is a high crime and misdemeanor. And if they define jaywalking as a high crime and misdemeanor, they're going to impeach the president.

It's a certainty. We know the Senate won't remove him. But the House, they can't help themselves. It's like crack cocaine.

FAULKNER: Do you have any doubt that this will be released with as much transparency as possible? I mean, the Attorney General William Barr in his confirmation hearings has said that that would actually be the case. I'm looking down, Senator Elizabeth Warren who of course is running for the White House in 2020, Robert Mueller has finished his report. He's delivered it to Attorney General William Barr. The American people deserve the full report sign our petition to make Mueller report public immediately.

Senator Cory Booker, you can sign on with him too but it also goes to a clique to raise money, donations. What are your thoughts about it getting out? Are you worried about that?

CAPUTO: Well, we all know these guys are looking for the e-mails to raise money. All these presidential candidates are going to ride this pony as long as they can.

The fact to the matter is I stand with the president. Release the whole thing. Don't redact a darn thing as far as I'm concerned. The fact is the Russians were trying to meddle in our elections. I'd be surprised if they haven't tried to meddle in every single election we've had since the -- since the Soviet Union. It's a fact.

And, you know, I know that there was no collusion because I was there. I know that the president didn't obstruct because I know what kind of man he is. I'm with him. Let it all hang out. And let the Democrats strap on the clown shoes and put on the white paint. And make fools of themselves if they climb in the clown car trying to continue to prove collusion.

FAULKNER: Wow. Michael Caputo, I know that you are big grievance has been how much your family life has been disrupted. Let it all hang out will be your final words on your birthday, sir. Thank you for joining me.

CAPUTO: Thank you.

FAULKNER: I want to bring in now Texas Republican Congressman Dan Crenshaw. You were tweeting about this. You have been vocal about it. Your reaction tonight to William Barr getting the Mueller report.

REP. DAN CRENSHAW, R-TX: Well, you know, as we voted on in the House, I think it should be made as transparent as possible. I think this entire issue is psychologically divisive for the whole country. And the best way to combat that and heal the country is to see what is in it. I hope the Democrats can accept that.

We are already seeing they don't plan to accept it. And that's really disturbing. You know we've put a lot of the Mueller report is two years of work. A lot of work has gone into this. And to not accept those findings will be really traumatic for the American people. I hope they do.

FAULKNER: What do you think it will take at this point to heal the American public at this point? I mean, the trust is the issue here on a lot of different levels, whether it's the DOJ., whether it's the FBI, whether it's the process.

CRENSHAW: Well, you know, I thought there is bipartisan support for the Mueller investigation in the sense that we trusted it. Right? Because the talking points you heard of the Democrats constantly over the last two years were protect the Mueller investigation. They were always worried that Trump was going to shut it down. Well, he didn't.

So, the implication is that you trusted what Mueller was doing. And I think we all did. You know, putting aside the premises on which that investigation started. But let's see what's in it.

Let's not get ahead of ourselves of course, but let's see what's in it. It's pretty telling that there is no more indictments. Let's see what's in it and be objective about what we are finding there.

And again, I hope the Democrats can be objective about that. And we should all be happy about the good news that our president is not corrupt and did not collude with Russia. That is good news no matter what side of the aisle you're you on.

FAULKNER: And what is the tone on Capitol Hill? I mean, you've been there and you know what people are talking about. I was speaking about impeachment among some of the Democrat House members whether they got this report first or not. Their efforts were to try to get the president impeached.

Nancy Pelosi, the House Speaker saying, you know, holding them back, let's see. What is the tone? Is it as bitter as it looks from the American people's perspective? From all of us outside.

CRENSHAW: Yes, well, I think on the Democrat side they are deeply divided on that issue. So, the tone really depends on who you talk to. There is a wide spectrum on the Democrats side. There are those who like you noted, are calling for impeachment almost every single day.

There are those like Adam Schiff who claim that there was direct evidence of collusion. Well that turned out not to be true, didn't it? And then there is I think the more moderate side who would caution us all, who do understand that this is deeply divisive. And that calling for impeachment for any crime they can find is actually harmful to the country, not helpful.

FAULKNER: You know, the president had tweeted and then I saw your reaction to it that on the recent non-binding vote, it was 420 to zero in Congress about releasing the Mueller report.

You said, "I got no pressure one way or the other. We voted yes because this investigation has been terribly divisive and I see great benefit to total transparency. Anything less will result in conspiratorial finger- pointing and even greater division."

CRENSHAW: Right. And that's exactly what we want to avoid. Right? The more transparency that we have the less likely the Democrats can turn around and say well, you didn't release that. And we know there was something and you just didn't want to release it.

We want to avoid that in its entirety. We understand of course that there are going to be -- might be classified material that can't be released but the more transparency is, the better for the American people. We still stand by that. That's why that vote was so unanimous.

FAULKNER: If this turns out to have been something other than also a look at what Russia did to interfere, has this been an exercise in futility if in fact there's no evidence of collusion and there are no further indictments coming which is what we are being told tonight?

CRENSHAW: Well, possibly. You know, is there any -- is there any use in exercising regret over this? Probably not. I just hope we can move on at this point.

FAULKNER: Yes. I mean, I'm just hearing some members on the Hill tonight. And I'm wondering if you are concerned about this as well. That we didn't get maybe what we could have gotten had we solely focused on what the Russians did.

I don't know if you heard Michael Caputo but he said he wouldn't be surprised if the Russians had been doing this for years and years and years.

CRENSHAW: Well, not only is it not surprising, it's almost guaranteed. This is -- this is -- Russians engaging in election interference is nothing new. Russians engaging in intelligence operations against the United States is certainly nothing new.

We should never be surprised about that. We should always be working to defend ourselves from that and we should be looking into what happened in 2016 and 2018 but it will happen in 2020. The Russians are certainly going to do it again.

You know, the question is always how much of an effect does that have, or there were any Americans involved. It turns out it doesn't look like there was. But you know, the point is we should always be taking our cyber security extremely seriously and protecting our elections in serious ways.

FAULKNER: Well, and they say that's the next battlefield. And they say treasured veteran, someone who has been there many times and we treasure all of our veterans who fight for our nation and what we believe in. That is the goal is to try to make it even for everybody to get to the facts and to protect that democracy.

Before I let you go, what is next in terms of pushing against Democrats who would want to try to impeach the president? I mean, what will Republicans do? What is the strategy at this point? Will you get out in full force with messaging or do you leave it to the White House?

CRENSHAW: Well, you know, I mean, I think we all need to be -- we all need to be objective. OK? So, the strategy is exposing the lies that they are trying to tell people and because that's what they are doing right now. They're digging up any and all reasons they can to hate this president, to impeach this president and to undermine this president.

And you know, again, we have to be objective about this. When this report becomes fully transparent as I hope it does, the truth will come out. And you can't just keep infringing on someone's civil liberties the way the Democrats apparently wish to do looking in -- looking for every possible reason why this person might have committed a crime. That's not really how the country works. So, the strategy is, tell the truth 100 percent.

FAULKNER: Congressman Dan Crenshaw from the great state of Texas. Thank you very much for being along for the breaking news tonight.

CRENSHAW: Thanks for having me.

FAULKNER: I want to bring in chief White House correspondent John Roberts live at the White House. John, we just heard according to the Department of Justice, William Barr has left for the evening. We had heard word that he was leaving the building or had left. Your latest?

JOHN ROBERTS, CHIEF WHITE HOUSE CORRESPONDENT: Well, the latest here from the White House and the president who is spending the weekend down at Mar-a-Largo, is that this thing is over.

The fact that Robert Mueller will be leaving the special counsel's office in the next few days is an indication that the Russia investigation is over. And Robert Mueller doesn't have anywhere else to go. Not to say that maybe the Southern District of New York doesn't have somewhere else to go but the office of the special counsel will be closed down.

I am told that the president is glad that this is all over. Now we're also being told it's not likely we're going to hear anything about the special report, the special counsel's report at least until sometime on Sunday.

They have a lot of material to go through. They have to determine what might be classified, what might be subject to executive privilege. And it's going to take them a while before they can put together a summary to deliver to Congress.

The fact that Robert Mueller though said, that he is not seeking anymore indictment was seen as a comfort by the president's outside attorneys. Rudy Giuliani telling me, quote, "This marks the end of the Russia investigation. We await a disclosure of the facts. We are confident that there is no finding of collusion by the president and this underscore what the president had been saying from the beginning that he did nothing wrong."

Now the president has had some success in undermining the very premise of the Mueller investigation. He had said week after week, month after month that this is nothing but a witch hunt, that this is nothing but an attempt to overturn the 2016 election.

And if you look at USA Today poll in its findings that came out in the last few days, the president has had some success in making that case because 50 percent of the people who were polled said they do believe that the president is subject to a witch hunt.

And as he was way out -- on his way out the door this morning via helicopter, and you can hear them behind me. They are taking advantage of the president not being here to practice the helicopter landings on the White House's South Lawn. The president was doing his best to continue to undermine the Mueller investigation. Listen here.

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DONALD TRUMP, PRESIDENT: We're going to see what happens. It's going to be interesting, but we'll see what happens. There was no collusion. There was no obstruction. Everybody knows it. It's all a big hoax. I call it the witch hunt. It's all a big hoax. So, we'll see what happens. I know that the attorney general highly respected ultimately, we'll make a decision.

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ROBERTS: And of course, the big question is where do we go from here. As Barr puts together the summary that he plans to deliver to Congress. Will he consult with the president's attorneys? Will they have a hand in crafting the summary that is going to Congress?

There was an Associated Press report out that Rudy Giuliani was demanding to see the report before it goes to Congress. Rudy Giuliani called me to tell me that that absolutely is not the case, it's up to William Barr what he wants to do.

And then there is the bigger picture. That is the sense here, Harris, is that if this report goes a long distance toward exonerating the president, well, does Congress then try to get ahold of the whole report and the investigate materials? And there's got to be a warehouse full of those.

And then if this report it fully exonerates the president, do the Democrats then re-calibrate completely what they were planning to do and go after the president on something else?

So, a lot of unknowns here. But I think it's pretty safe to say it will likely be at least 24 hours before we hear more developments on this in terms of what that report actually contains.

FAULKNER: All right. John Roberts, thank you very much. We'll let them land that helicopter. We appreciate the update from the perspective of the White House and all the information that you brought.

Before I get to Congressman Doug Collins, ranking member of the committee on the judiciary, I want to bring this in. He was one of four people who receive this from the attorney general today.

The Democratic chairs of six House committees are now demanding that the Justice Department release, quote/unquote, "without delay the full report it has received from the special counsel Robert Mueller."

They say they expect Attorney General Barr also to hand over all evidence that Mueller has uncovered. So that's what John Roberts was just talking about that they would try to push for this.

And in fact, Democrat are saying that since the Justice Department asserts a sitting president cannot indicted, Barr's failure to release evidence of criminal or other misconduct by President Trump, quote, "would raise serious questions about whether the DOJ Policy is being used as a pretext for cover up of misconduct." End quote.

That's among Democrats and six House committees calling for that without delay release of the report, according to the Associated Press being reported at this time.

All right. So, before we get to the Congressman, can we pop up on the screen the letter that came from the attorney general? Again, my next guest the honorable Doug Collins received this. That's how it is written in the letter.

"The special counsel has submitted to me today a confidential report explaining prosecution or declination decisions that he has reached as required by 28 CFR. I am reviewing the report, and anticipate that I may be in a position to advise you of the special counsel's principal conclusions as soon as this weekend."

And now, the ranking member on the House judiciary committee, Doug Collins. Congressman, I bring you in now to get a look at what happens next in all of this.

REP. DOUG COLLINS, R-GA: Hey, Harris. How are you?

FAULKNER: Fantastic. It is a busy Friday night. You received the letter. What is next course of action?

COLLINS: Well, I think this follows what we've been talking about. And you and I have talked about this a lot in the last few weeks. This follows the course of action that has laid out by the regulation at justice. And that's exactly what Bill Barr is doing.

He is doing exactly what we knew he would do. And that is follow regulations to a t. He delivered the letter today, he has now said that the investigation is over and that Mueller has turned over his report for him for his assessment and going to through it to make his explanation.

It is important to note here several things that are out there. And I will just report what we know. And that is from the letter and then where we go next. The letter clearly states that there was no interference by attorney general or acting attorneys general in any request by Mr. Mueller for his investigation.

That's a big topic because the Democrats have been talking all along to make sure that nobody interfered. Well, no one interfered. He had plenty of time to do everything. He has now completed it.

What will happen now as said in the letter that he will, Barr -- Mr. Barr will actually, the attorney general will then prepare his report and then he will send that to us as early as this weekend.

And at that point in time, we will have the process of what Mueller found. And it will be coming out to the public as we go forth in the way that Bill Barr is set out in the regulation.

So, I want everybody to understand exactly what happens next. The report will come out, it is up to Bill Barr on how that comes out. But he does have to give it to us as he did today. And so far, he has done everything by the book. That is a good thing.

FAULKNER: All right. So, we know from what it says in that letter you received that he may be in a position to advise of the special counsel's position -- or principal conclusions by this weekend. Are there members who are ready to accept this information and get to work on it immediately what is happening on the Hill tonight?

COLLINS: Yes. We are prepared. Our office is of course prepared. And I'm sure that the chairman's office and also Chairman Graham and the Ranking Member Feinstein's committee are as well and we'll be prepared to get that out.

I think, well, let's go back and remember. When Attorney General Barr was going through the confirmation and when the conversation that we have had, he wants to release as much as legally possible.

And I think there'd been a lot of conversation tonight and including my Democratic friends who seem to be going a little bit concerning now about the fact that this doesn't seem to be leading where they always thought it was going to be leading.

But at this point in time, what we are seeing is him putting that together. There's classified information in there possibly. There are 60 which is a grand jury investigation now which will not will be released, and then, Harris, on his own investigation.

So, he will release I believe and he has said this publicly all that he can legally put forward. And I think that is where we will see this from. And Democrats are just going to have to understand that, that they have looked everything on a report that may come back and say exactly what we have been saying for two years, and the president has been saying that the collusion was not there. So, but, that is still to come. But they are, I think they are panicking right now.

FAULKNER: OK. Real quickly. The Southern District of New York cases that were put forth. I mean, we've seen them go far and wide with this. What happens next for the president with regard to any of that?

COLLINS: This would, every indication we got this, this would not affect those cases. Those cases will continue on I do believe, has been talked about before that those are, you know, proceeding on and are getting further down the line.

Remember also, that Mr. Horowitz who is the inspector general at the Department of Justice also is still investigating the FISA abuses. This is something that we need to go back to is reminding people what really did happen. If the report comes back as we think it will and there is no collusion. And hopefully that's what it's going to say when we see that and we think it will.

But we can go back and actually show where there were issues at the Department of Justice and the other things that precipitated this Russia investigation, namely, Strozk, Page, and McCabe and others who circumvented the procedures circumvented things that led us to the position to where we're now.

So, I think a lot of investigations are going on but this is a big conclusion to a Russia investigation that we're looking forward to finishing up and moving forward with the work of the people that want us to do.

FAULKNER: Representative Collins, thank you very much. You were one of the four to receive that letter today from the attorney general. And I appreciate you coming on tonight to talk about what happens next.

COLLINS: No problem. We look forward to keeping everybody in touch. And I would encourage everybody if they want to actually read the letter that I received today they can go to our Twitter account and they can actually read the letter for themselves.

FAULKNER: All right. Thank you, sir.

I want to bring in now chief intelligence correspondent Catherine Herridge. So, Catherine, I was just talking with Congressman Collins about this and you might have more information on the southern district cases of New York.

It is some place where immediately after we saw sentencing of one of the principals in this case, they lit up with what comes next. And that sentencing for Manafort perhaps could be something that the federal level, that could get a pardon from the president. These cases, if they were to find Manafort or anybody guilty of anything -- cannot be privy to a presidential pardon.

CATHERINE HERRIDGE, CHIEF INTELLIGENCE CORRESPONDENT: Look, there's going to be further court action, Harris. You are quite right. It's going to be in districts outside of the Russia special counsel investigation. So, cases that arise, for example, out of the Southern District of New York.

I want to share information with you and the folks at home. I have had a lot of contact with individuals who have been questioned by the special counsel over the last two years and I've not been able to report some of this information because they've asked me to hold it until the report is complete. So, I feel like I can share some of it right now.

And it goes to the idea of how comprehensive the investigation was by special counsel Robert Mueller. These individuals described to me an investigation that was really driven by the forensics and by the documents.

And some of these major events like the June 2016 Trump tower meeting, the Republican convention, the changes to the party platform, they were almost treated like a crime scene, if you will, in terms of how people were interviewed, the documents that were collected, the phone records and then individuals were challenged on their version of events with that paperwork.

For some people who were only witnesses in this investigation, they were not forgets, they were still looking at legal bills upward of $100,000. So that gives you the sense of the financial hardship for individuals who were simply witnesses in this investigation, Harris.

FAULKNER: And we heard from Michael Caputo this hour. He joined me. He was one of those caught up in all of this. I mean, separate from the Southern District of New York but he sat down with Mueller's team. And it is an expensive and a life-changing event to sit down with prosecutors and to have everything laid bare.

HERRIDGE: Yes, that's right. And the other thing I wanted to, sort of emphasize is that we are talking about special counsel Robert Mueller. But in the building behind me the Inspector General Michael E. Horowitz, they've been running essentially a parallel or a tandem investigation, if you will, into three key areas.

One of them is these allegations of FISA abuse. So, this is abuse of the surveillance warrant system during the 2016 campaign and whether there was an honest application or a straightforward application that did not withhold evidence from the FISA court in October of 2016 for Trump campaign aide or whether exculpatory evidence or evidence that was in conflict with getting the application was presented to this court.

The other investigation has been looking at issues that arose out of the Clinton e-mail investigation in 2016, specifically, the leaking of classified information.

And you recall that former FBI Director James Comey said he deliberately leaked his memo about a conversation with the president in order to kick- start the special counsel investigation which in effect it did, along with his firing, Harris.

FAULKNER: Catherine --

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HERRIDGE: So that's going to be the follow-on action here.

FAULKNER: Right. And we are going to get into it right now on James Comey. Thank you very much.

So that's interesting because now that segues right into this new information from you.

ED HENRY, ANCHOR: Yes. What's interesting, Harris. I have a stream of advisers, allies of the president texting me saying we're live we're all over the story.

And they are saying what about James Comey and the fact that he testified under oath that he used a friend to leak out those memos of his conversations with the president to force the naming of the special counsel, number one, and at that time suggested it was because of criminal wrongdoing perhaps by the president.

And then you fast forward to what happened last night. We had it on the program here last night, James Comey, the same man had an op-ed in the New York Times breaking last night into this morning saying we don't think there is evidence of collusion or obstruction of justice. And I don't care, he said.

"I have no idea whether the special counsel will conclude that Mr. Trump knowingly conspired with the Russians or that he obstructed justice with the required corrupt intent. I also don't care." Even though Comey and all these other critics have been saying for a year and a half that they believe that all of that evidence might be there, number one.

And number two, an ally of the president just texted me how is it that James Comey before -- hours before this report came out was able to do sort of an expectation setting op-ed? Hey, guys, there's probably not going to be collusion here. When Catherine Herridge and all of us are reporting we don't know what's in this report yet. It's confidential. Only the attorney general has it.

But James Comey, who the president has repeatedly said is a key ally of Mueller and they were friends, they've denied that. He is able to go out there just hours before and say it's probably not going to be a lot.

FAULKNER: It's a probably --

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HENRY: Not saying it proves anything but it's an interesting question.

FAULKNER: No, no. But one thing that we have learned about James Comey is that he's all about James Comey. And probably a person who could tell you that better than anybody is Hillary Clinton.

HENRY: Absolutely.

FAULKNER: Because remember what he did in the July before the election. It caused a cloud over her --

HENRY: Which the president --

FAULKNER: -- her team members said.

HENRY: President Trump used to say was wrong by James Comey and was reason to fire him.

FAULKNER: Yes. Right.

HENRY: Then that was turned around on the president to say firing Comey was obstruction of justice. Well, it appears based on -- we have to get the contents --

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FAULKNER: We got to get it wrong.

HENRY: -- that maybe it's not there.

FAULKNER: All right. Ed Henry, thank you for standing by with me tonight.

I want to bring in now Corey Lewandowski, someone who knew the Trump campaign very well. Corey, good to see you on this night in particular. Michael Caputo was on, former member of the Trump campaign earlier and he talked about the disruption in his life. I want you to talk about what it's like to sit down and talk about this case with the prosecutors.

COREY LEWANDOWSKI, FORMER TRUMP CAMPAIGN MANAGER: Well, Harris, as I've been forward about, I've spent 12 hours testifying in front of the House committee, in front of Adam Schiff and Eric Swalwell who have repeatedly said they are 100 percent certain that there was Russia collusion. They've said it many, many times. Now we know that there was no Russia collusion.

I spent eight hours testifying in front of the U.S. Senate as well. I'm a man of, you know, I grew up in Lowell, Massachusetts and I didn't grow up with any wealth whatsoever, I've four kids to put through college.

And what the overreach of the government has done and what this investigation which has lasted one year, 675 days or one year, 10 months and six days has done to individuals has destroyed some lives.

Look what they did or tried to do to Jerome Corsi. They asked him to sign a document to plead guilty to a crime. And now we see that the Mueller investigation is over, and they are not charging Dr. Corsi with any crime.

This is what is going on. It is overreach of the government that was started because Hillary Clinton took $5 million and created a false dossier and James Comey, the messiah complex James Comey, the man who discernment in his own mind and what is right and wrong took that false dossier present it to President-elect Donald Trump and launched an investigation because Hillary Clinton couldn't win an election.

That's what this was always been about. They tried to prove that Donald Trump cheated when he never did. I was there every single day. We work harder than they did. We out-smarted them. And they are still not comfortable with the result that Donald Trump won that election.

FAULKNER: You have talked with and I mentioned earlier the Associated Press is reporting now that the Democratic chairs of six House committees are demanding that the Justice Department release without delay the full report it has received from special counsel Robert Mueller.

Why would that not happen given all of the things that you said depending on what the facts are about collusion. It was never a crime, obstruction of justice, conspiracy. There are other things that they may have looked at. Certainly, tampering with an election by the Russians but collusion was never a crime. So, when you hear that they want full transparency isn't that something that everybody agrees on?

LEWANDOWSKI: Harris, you and I both want the same thing. We want to see the full report. Because what we know and what we heard for countless hours on the Cable News Networks was Donald Trump was first going to fire Bob Mueller and Congress had to save him.

Then Donald Trump was telling Whitaker and Sessions, and Rosenstein, and ultimately Barr, to oversee the investigation. We now know that none of that was true. I want to see the full unredacted report because the American taxpayers have a right to see where $40 million went of their money to prove something that I knew from day one. There was no collusion. There was no cooperation. There was no coordination between the Trump campaign and the Russians.

Donald Trump beat Hillary Clinton fair and square. We knew it from day one. And these people use their badges and their positions of government to ruin people's lives and Jim Comey and Andy McCabe who now has a criminal referral against him. I hope that Bill Barr has some accountability to these people. Peter Strozk and Lisa Page and Jim Baker and all the ones who perpetrated these crimes against the Trump people and the American people for wasting taxpayer money because there should be accountability.

FAULKNER: All right. Corey, as you were speaking, we were getting a statement in from the special counsel per our Catherine Herridge. And so, you sit along with more breaking news now.

The special counsel will be concluding his service in the coming days. A small number of staffs will remain to assist in closing the operations of the office for a period of time.

Corey Lewandowski, have you spoken to the president tonight?

LEWANDOWSKI: You know, I haven't spoken to him, Harris. But that tells me is there are no sealed indictments. So, let's be very clear. If there was sealed indictments --

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FAULKNER: That was the question I had.

LEWANDOWSKI: -- the special prosecutors and his entire team would not be disbanding. We've now seen this over a series of weeks. They are all leaving and going back to their respective positions. So, what we know is there had been no current indictments as it relates to Russia collusion and there are no sealed indictments is what this indicates to us which is a very clear signal that this entire hoax is finally over.

FAULKNER: As you and I'm sure you fully will because you were with the campaign, the president fully intends to run for re-election. You've got another campaign coming up. How does this play for messaging for the president this weekend while we wait for this report?

LEWANDOWSKI: Well, I think what's going to happen is that Democrats are clearly still going to overreach. They are going to continue with their socialist agenda and try to impeach this president. And they will have the recourse for that at the ballot box in 2020. This presidential has delivered on every promise.

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FAULKNER: What should the president's messaging be at this point? What would you anticipate to hear from him?

LEWANDOWSKI: Vindication. And an announcement --

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FAULKNER: Now we don't know what's in the report yet.

LEWANDOWSKI: -- that he was right all the time. Well, we know what's in the report, Harris. We know there are no additional indictments, there are no sealed indictments, we know that the special counsel's job is now over and he is going back to the private sector.

What we know is that what the president has said. This was $40 million, 675 days of wasted taxpayer money to prove what we knew from day one which there was no collusion.

FAULKNER: Corey Lewandowski, thank you very much for your first reaction tonight on the story.

You see me looking down and I'm catching some things that are coming up on our urgent que. I -- from the Attorney General Barr has left the Department of Justice. We told you that. I should receive some kind of guidance tomorrow on when we may get information about what Barr is advising Congress.

And of course, we've had member of Congress on this very program. Former Attorney General Sessions is telling Fox News at this point that he won't comment on the release of the Mueller report. Quote/unquote, "At this time, there is so much more news to come on all of this."

So significant players like Sessions and others are commenting or not commenting at this hour. But what we can tell you is that the process of Robert Mueller looking into whether or not the Trump campaign colluded with Russia has come to a conclusion in a report that is now in the hands of both the Attorney General William Barr and Deputy Attorney General Rosenstein.

Rosenstein choosing to stay on for a few extra days. That decision this week.

We are continuing here on Fox News channel to cover all the breaking news with regard to this. It has been 675 days of investigation and wait, and now movement. That is “The Story” on Friday night. I'm Harris in for Martha.

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